{"id":2100,"date":"2013-07-10T14:13:40","date_gmt":"2013-07-10T14:13:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/latin\/?p=2100"},"modified":"2013-07-10T14:13:40","modified_gmt":"2013-07-10T14:13:40","slug":"brittany-britanniae-i-presume","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/latin\/brittany-britanniae-i-presume\/","title":{"rendered":"Brittany Britanniae, I presume?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Salvete Omnes! (Hello Everyone!),<\/p>\n

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I am so honored and excited to become part of Transparent Language’s Latin Blog. So, allow me to introduce myself. My name is Brittany, but for this blog I have adopted the epithet of “Brittany\u00a0Britanniae” (which means Brittany\u00a0“of Britain” and this is the singular genitive form of the feminine\u00a0noun “Britannia” or Britain). While, I am not 100%\u00a0British- my family roots are from Britain. Thus, my birth-name Brittany actually\u00a0means “from Britain.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Statue of Britannia (personification of Great Britain) courtesy of Wikimedia Commons and author mageslayer99<\/p><\/div>\n

My passion of ancient history and culture derives from my early introduction to it. In the form of myth, movies, and television, the ancient\u00a0world became alive in my eyes. I am sure\u00a0many readers can recount films or books that employed redolence of the ancient world that captured their interest.\u00a0It is this\u00a0interest and love for antiquity that impelled me\u00a0to become a Classicist.<\/p>\n

My first introduction to Latin was in middle school\u00a0when my mother taught me a phrase. The phrase was “Semper<\/strong> (sempear) ubi<\/strong> (oobe)\u00a0sub<\/strong>( sub)\u00a0ubi<\/strong> (oobe)\u00a0”<\/p>\n

The following Youtube video pronounces\u00a0the saying\u00a0properly if you are having trouble.<\/p>\n